"If data centres were a country, only the United States would have placed more gas turbine orders since the beginning of 2025." from www.iea.org/reports/worl... from @iea.org

"It is not acceptable to bounce users on old browsers, users with bad network connections, users using assistive technologies. Certainly not from a monopoly public service. A lot of hype and noise is pressing us to extend the cowboy, wild-west phase of the software industry’s expansion."

My thoughts on why prototyping using LLMs is tricky EVEN when it genuinely works : news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4847... TL;DR: Are you actually creating something new and if not is this due to an inherent bias to build "in-house"?

"Social media is evolving into something passive like television, albeit television that adapts as you zap. [...] You give the platform information about yourself that it uses for commercial gain and, in return, it gives you content tailored to please you for free." www.bbc.com/worklife/art...

"it is fundamentally dishonest to have a machine emit many categories of sentences, including any sentences using first-person pronouns."

Imagine this current usage in users too young to have proper self control PLUS fueled by greed strategically leveraging incumbency and dark patterns for addiction. Think I'm exaggerating? Think again www.404media.co/microsoft-wa...

Conversation with a 12 y/o today: Me: what's your favorite App? Them: AI - what for? - homework (shows me how to snap a picture of homework to get it "solved") - looks like a robot going to the gym on your behalf, are you actually learning? - sure, the AI teaches me - does your teacher know? - nope

Between "The Man Who Sold the World" or "Saviour Machine" Bowie was onto something, more than half a century ago.

Provocative take : I don't think information overload is a novel phenomenon.

Your child’s drawing on a real rocket? 🤩 Kids up to 12 can create a space-inspired drawing for a chance to see it printed on the fairing of Ariane 6, for the launch of Plato next year. ✨ Submit by 1 July 2026! More info 👇 www.esa.int/kids/en/thin...

" the “primary driver” of these abnormally high failing rates is due to a “vast increase in academic dishonesty” due to students’ usage of large language models, such as Claude, ChatGPT and Google Gemini." www.dailycal.org/news/campus/... Damn, what a useful technology, we just need MORE of it! /s

"The increasing involvement of technology companies in mathematical research raises the risk that research questions may come to be prioritized because of their amenability to automated mathematics, rather than expert judgment of their deeper significance."

More evidence that bottom-up VR gamer demand drives VR ecosystem dynamics, not top-down platform holder decisions. Despite quite obviously being the truth, this does not fit the popular narrative.

@kentbye.com just learned about podlibre.org you might like it

It's the season, happens every few decades en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_cl...

AI industry in 1 comment : "The thought behind it was great, but the execution was proving difficult" From finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech... as an "anecdote" of a deployment of a Nasdaq-100 company present in 87 country. No big deal.

SpaceX and the ‘enshittification’ of markets - @katie0martin.ft.com on the risks of Elon Musk's company joining big market indices. Remember Twitter? www.ft.com/content/f724...

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

The idea : people looking at me giving XR demo don't have to ponder what it is others are looking at inside the headset, they see on my back. It's v0.1, after reviewing it the in-VR perspective needs to be way WAY bigger.

It just does not add up. Those AI companies are supposedly full of 1000x engineers thanks to their powerful tool. The brightest researchers with supposedly STOA security models. Yet they f*ck just like everybody else, not replying to disclosure. Why? news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4835...

"Good Prototypes Are 10 Lines Long" a short essay on laziness. fabien.benetou.fr/Content/Good...

More of this please. A Danish pension fund has blacklisted #SpaceX, calling it grossly overvalued with catastrophic governance thenextweb.com/news/danish-...

It's not a "bug", it's a corporate feature : you are getting milked. Next time you want a "smart" or "connected" device hoping to do more, rely on open source and open hardware otherwise you WILL, always, get locked out. It's a law of the (commercial) Universe. github.com/robinostlund...

I mean... that flag is super high so it's all OK. /s

Hey #XR game devs and players😎👋, what's your favorite "juice" UX in XR?

HYPER-REALITY is 10 years old 😳 Thank you to everyone who watched and shared it over the years youtu.be/YJg02ivYzSs?...

Integrating hand draw signs from kids

Yeay, #WebXR because streaming on the Web just works. Instant delivery.

When Nobel Prize laureate fuel hype psychosis. There is no "one" to convince in the machine. It's just CEOs, shareholders, military funding, surveillance companies, building, selling and BUYING tools that hurt us. It's really that simple. When people profit by hurting others, it's bad.

Preparing an augmented reality experiment on road safety (well... safety-ish, you might or might not get chased down by a mini T-rex) thanks to @leschercheursdair.be great initiative! www.leschercheursdair.be/2026/02/09/s... Progress in Brussels🇧🇪🇪🇺 video.benetou.fr/w/fuKE8XMx1a... ideas💡 welcomed!

@dgrigar.bsky.social I imagine you're aware of it but just in case virtualosmuseum.org

@volorf.bsky.social hey played boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/40... this morning and reminded me of your work, might want to play with it!

Kine at home video.benetou.fr/w/wbsmMQVVaD...

1-liner gravity-ish... setInterval( _ => { if (projectile.object3D.position.y > 0) projectile.object3D.position.y *= .99 }, 100)

Ultimate liminal spaces. It's honestly impressive, on the surface. The visuals are gorgeous... but it's still empty. What makes a "World" a world is precisely it's coherency. It's not about how it looks but rather how it "works". nvlabs.github.io/Sana/WM/ "SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model"

The World if 0.00001% of what is invested in AI; was spent on free & open-source software.

Surprised? Read Rick Reilly's 2020 "Commander in Cheat - How Golf Explains Trump". This is perfectly coherent with the behavior, he's just "winning", nothing more, nothing less. Sure, everybody might believe otherwise but he just shrugs it off while getting wealthier. No consequence so he goes on.🤷‍♂️

Tip of the tongue : what's the gaming term for making a game more... explosive? More VFX, more arcade... just more everything shiny?

This is the fantasy I imagine in the mind of the average C-suite executive and HN leveraging AI agent network with meta-harness entrepreneur (made up) : old.reddit.com/r/interestin... A humanoid robot doing quite poorly an extremely narrow and repetitive task very slowly... but it's progress soon!

It's so woke to ban advertisements from companies (not the product from those companies!) which business model IS to destroy our environment, surely the Dutch will be in BIG trouble soon! /$ www.bbc.com/news/article... PS: the /s is for sarcasm, the /$ is for-profit sarcasm.

"AI and LLM repositories emerged as the largest non-malicious category of fake-star recipients, ahead of blockchain/cryptocurrency projects in absolute volume at 177,000 fake stars." awesomeagents.ai/news/github-... People benefiting from the hype use its tools to make it grow. No surprise.🤔

Journée internationale de la femme en mathématiques. En savoir plus sur notre ouvrage : www.cnrseditions.fr/catalogue/ma... @clemence-perronnet.bsky.social

"we urge Anthropic and other LLM developers that train models using huge datasets downloaded from the Internet to provide these LLMs to their users in freedom." 👌 www.fsf.org/blogs/licens...

Well... maybe it's time to say "fuck it" to those content providers. It's the same problem as DRMs. The problem isn't how to be compatible with DRM, the problem IS DRMs. Here the "solution" is "simply" to NOT rely on those Big Content platforms and reject them entirely.

Check our new work on OpenCourier — an open protocol for interoperable, worker-owned delivery platforms. By: Yuhan Liu, Varun Rao, @s0hw.bsky.social @cyberlyra.bsky.social and @andresmh.hci.social.ap.brid.gy Thanks to @pcc-global.bsky.social for amplifying it! platform.coop/blog/toward-...

Are you working to make programming more direct, tangible, and alive? Share your work at LIVE, the world's premier gathering on live programming, held online this October! LIVE welcomes submissions from academia, industry, and individuals. Call for submissions and more details on liveprog.org/

Sometimes a portfolio (or even just public record of your past work) isn't to "show off" to others what you did but rather to remind yourself of paths you already explored.

Extended Reality (XR) opens new pathways for space exploration. Find out about our current applications in this article 👇 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

for the next #WebXR workshop, using my new PinePower (Pine64) for fast charging 5 headsets at once 🔌⚡️ (165W)

Everybody becoming super genius using AI to be 100x anything while I, like a caveman, learns how ffmpeg works fabien.benetou.fr/Tools/Ffmpeg and writes it down in my notes. Today discovering how to use map to exclude a specific stream. Then I manually update my own script to use it. So old school.👴